{"id":70192,"date":"2018-10-10T09:47:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T07:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=70192"},"modified":"2018-10-10T09:47:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T07:47:23","slug":"workers-return-to-work-at-terrastone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/workers-return-to-work-at-terrastone\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers return to work at Terrastone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Feston Malekezo: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/terrastone-workers-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-70125\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/terrastone-workers-1-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/terrastone-workers-1-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/terrastone-workers-1-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/terrastone-workers-1.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Terrastone Construction Limited workers, who are constructing Malawi Bureau of Standards\u2019 laboratory complex in Blantyre, resumed work Tuesday after discussions between management and representatives of the workers.<\/p>\n<p>The workers had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/terrastone-workers-stage-protests-over-abuse-low-pay\/\">downed tools<\/a> on Monday over alleged abuse and low pay.<\/p>\n<p>One of the workers, Aaron Makawa, told <em>The Daily Times <\/em>that the company\u2019s management has bowed down to some of the workers\u2019 demands which include transferring expatriates perceived to be abusive.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cManagement has promised to respond to the other challenges by Monday next week. This includes low pay. You should also understand the fact that we receive per fortnight, we pay tax twice a month. So we want that to be looked into because the pay is just meagre,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The staff is paid K21, 930 per fortnight. The pay includes K5,355 for overtime and miscellaneous allowances of K2, 640, according to a September payslip which <em>The Daily Times <\/em>has seen.<\/p>\n<p>Terrastone Human Resources Manager, Mike Khombeya, could not comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The two-year construction project started in 2016 and is expected to provide exporters with internationally accredited testing services, reducing the need for re-testing, re-inspection and re-certification of their goods abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The laboratory is valued at $12.7 million\u2014 about K8.87 billion, with the overall implementation framework guided by a Contribution Agreement between the European Union and the United Nations Development Programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Feston Malekezo: Terrastone Construction Limited workers, who are constructing Malawi Bureau of Standards\u2019 laboratory complex in Blantyre, resumed work Tuesday after discussions between management and representatives of the workers. The workers had downed tools on Monday over alleged abuse and low pay. One of the workers, Aaron Makawa, told The Daily Times that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70196,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70192\/revisions\/70196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}